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My main research interest lies in the Latin literature of the long Middle Ages. I approach this still relatively ignored terra incognita from a set of related questions that all revolve around a practice of contextualizing and re-contextualizing: What is the relation between literary texts and the intellectual, institutional, and political milieus in which they originate? In what way did medieval and Neo-Latin literary texts negotiate ideas, values, and political claims from within these milieus? Which critical categories are necessary to explore and analyze the undervalued role of a symbolic medium as Latin literature as part of medieval and post-medieval contexts? And how, in turn, do our accounts and histories of these contexts - of medieval institutions, intellectual fields, and political sites - change in the light of these often ignored literary texts? What interests me, in short, is an intellectual and cultural history of medieval and post-medieval Latin literature and literary culture. As part of this approach I am also increasingly interested in material philology and the ways how the materiality of texts can be understood as a site of cultural and intellectual practices.

More specifically, I have so far concentrated on two major epochs:

The "Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" (or better the "long 12th century")

Late-Medieval and Humanist Latin Historiography of the 15th/16th centuries